Meeting 918 March 3, 2008
Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary Began 8:02 25 people attended We established a party jar Secretary’s report: we postponed accepting the minutes of meeting 917 until next week [since I forgot to bring them to the meeting] Treasurer's report was that at meeting 917 we took in $45.55 in the regular jar & $26.00 in the party jar there was no VP The President had nothing fannish to report Announcements Julie announced that Gerry Nordley is looking for volunteers to help out at Contact Ken announced that he is handing out crayons and copies of Ken & Jerry's Commemorative Coloring Book Mike announced that the 'Adventures of Briscoe County Jr' are out now on DVD - expensive - and that deepdiscount.com had it on special Andy announced that there is no convention this weekend that he's going to, but he'll be at the San Jose IRLM Coronation this weekend, check the website at www.irlm.org Lisa announced that Consonance is this weekend at the Crown Plaza in Milpitas & there will be a wedding held at con [Chaos Savitsky and Selkit being wed] Dave G announced that his company is hiring sales people - if interested see him Reviews: Adrienne reviewed 'The Other Boleyn Girl' as interesting & didn't let historical facts get in the way of their movie, there was computer-generated scenery, nice costumes - and then follow-on's - one that even mentioned the movie Julie reviewed local Daly City politics as she was surprised that so much talking could be done without anyone actually saying anything & worth attending to expand her horizons [evil] Kevin reviewed Ken & Jerry's wedding as that he and Andy were pencilled in as the '2 butch guys in security uniforms' only that they got the 'u' wrong, the food was amazing, the wedding was great fun and was absolutely worth full price - there were follow-on's [including one about beer ingredients] Joe reviewed a party of his that spanned 3 rooms, went past the PG rating and was definitely awesome Mike reviewed 'Jodhaa Akbar' as the dance sequences were better than the battle scenes & well worth full price [is playing at the Mercado] Bob reviewed Roseville as not worth full price Fred reviewed Potlatch as 188 attended and it was fun, cute and worth full price Harold reviewed Mexican boxing as 12 rounds of using style and technique to beat the hell out of each other & worth having cable & that Comcast let him watch 5 episodes of 'Torchwood' in a row Stellen reviewed a Man-Kzin war book by Chafe, 'Destiny's Forge' as a brick of a book & heavy on culture, fairly epic and worth e-book [tall] Kevin reviewed some SF author drama as amusing we then did auctions: a DVD for $1.00, a VHS tape for $2.75 & books for $0.25 We adjourned at = 9:10 And the rumor of the week was that = ‘Ben & Jerry will introduce a new flavor - deep cut bodice' _______________________________________________ Basfa mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org
